Mediatoon was created by the Média-Participationsgroup, the European leader in French-language comics and manga and one of the major producers of animated cartoons in Europe. Mediatoon oversees the group’s rights management in comic book publishing and audiovisual productions. The Mediatoon ForeignRights department is responsible for selling licenses to international publishers, magazines, and newspapers. MFR handles the foreign rights for the comic books published by the fiveimprints within the group, namely Dargaud, Dupuis, LeLombard, LuckyComics and Kana, as well as for illustrated children books released by the new imprint LittleUrban. MFR also sells foreign rights for derived editions of the animated series produced by Média-Participations.Over 1.5million licensed editions of comic albums in foreign languages are sold every year, in over 40countries and in more than 30languages.